When it comes to lying and making you feel good about it, Bill Clinton was the master. Remember the joke about a man caught in bed with his paramour engaged in coitus and his wife walks in? He jumps out of bed, fully erect, and proceeds to put on his clothes. As he dresses he begins denying what his wife “claimed” to have seen. He is emphatic in the denial and raises a variety of diversionary straw men. He walks out of the bedroom unscathed and with his marriage still intact.
That’s Bill Clinton (perhaps the “joke” is actually a biographical account of Bill’s). He lies and, bad boy that he is, you still like him.
That is not Hillary. She is an incompetent, inept liar. She can’t look at you with the same dreamy blue eyes of Bill and tell you, “I did not have sex with that woman.” Nope. She fluctuates between bug-eyes and shifty eyes. Neither look reassures anyone watching her that she is trustworthy.
And she stepped into it again on the issues of Benghazi and her private email.
The Daily Caller does a dandy job of detailing Hillary’s lies:
1. “People should and do trust me.”
“Would you vote for someone that you don’t trust?” Keilar asked Clinton in a discussion of the polling numbers about voters perception of her trustworthiness following the drama over her private email server as secretary of state.
“Well, they – people should and do trust me,” Clinton responded. “And I have every confidence that that will be the outcome of this election.” (RELATED: Poll: Swing State Voters Don’t Trust Hillary)
Fifty-three percent of American voters said Clinton is not honest and trustworthy in a May Quinnipiac poll. And in a May AP-GFK poll, nearly four in 10 Democrats and more than six in 10 Independents said “honest” is not the best word to describe her. . . .
2. I’m subjected to a “constant barrage of attacks that are largely fomented by and coming from the Right … “
Clinton blamed the email drama and resulting questions in the minds of voters on a vast but baseless right-wing conspiracy. She admitted that Americans should be thinking about those questions. . . .
3. “I only used one device.”
Clinton initially told reporters she set up the private server for convenience, because she didn’t want to carry separate devices for her work and her email. “People across the government knew that I used one device,” she reiterated Tuesday. “Maybe it was because I am not the most technically capable person and wanted to make it as easy as possible.”
But in an email to Sidney Blumenthal while she was secretary of state, Clinton mentioned she was without Blackberry coverage after a tropical storm and so had switched to a “new iPad” for her emails.
4. “I’ve never had a subpoena.”
Asked why she deleted more than 30,000 emails while under subpoena, Clinton said: “I’ve never had a subpoena.”
In response, the House Select Committee on Benghazi released its March subpoena to Clinton Wednesday, which it sent directly after it became aware of her personal email account and private server. The subpoena demanded she turn over all records and emails in her possession related to Benghazi. . . .
5. “I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me”
“Now I didn’t have to turn over anything,” Clinton said, referring to the emails she turned over last year. “I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the State Department system.”
But new emails surfaced in June that had not been turned over to the Benghazi committee, suggesting either that Clinton lied about turning all the remaining emails over to the State Department, or that the State Department for some reason didn’t turn all the relevant emails over to the Benghazi committee.
6. Republican presidential candidates are all “in the same general area on immigration.”
Asked about Donald Trump’s comments on immigration, Clinton tried to tie his remarks to the Republican party, saying they’re all “in the same general area on immigration.”
“They don’t want to provide a path to citizenship,” she said. “They range across a spectrum of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile toward immigrants. And I’m going to talk about comprehensive immigration reform.”
. . . .7. On raising taxes: “I’m going to be telling the American people what I propose.”
Clinton dodged a direct question about tax increases, saying she will tell the American people what she proposes in an upcoming speech.
“Is raising taxes on the table?” Keilar asked.
“I’m going to put out my policies, and I’ll let other people speak to their policies,” she said.
For my money, the true Whopper of the Whoppers was her denial of having received any subpoenas on the Benghazi matter. Republican Trey Gowdy drove that one right up her ass:
“Secretary Clinton had a statutory duty to preserve records from her time in office, she had a legal duty to cooperate and tell the truth with congressional investigators requesting her records, and she was personally subpoenaed the moment the Benghazi Committee became aware of her exclusive use of personal email and a server, and that the State department was not the custodian of her official record. For more than two years, Clinton never availed herself of the opportunity, even in response to a direct congressional inquiry, to inform the public of her unusual email arrangement designed to evade public transparency. The State Department, which should have informed congressional investigators years ago, failed to do so either. The fact of the matter is it took the Benghazi Committee to uncover Secretary Clinton’s use of personal email and a server to conduct official State Department business. And it was Benghazi Committee inquiries that led the State Department to confirm Clinton failed to turn over all emails that should be part of her public record; that Clinton’s personal emails and server in fact do contain classified information; that her emails from Sidney Blumenthal were solicited; and that she used more than one device for electronic communication, undercutting her ‘convenience’ claim. With regards to Secretary Clinton’s claims today, the committee does not know why or when she chose to wipe clean her personal server, but we do know her way of doing things provided an incomplete public record.”
I have a theory about Americans and politicians. In fact, it also applies to Reverends and Priests who are scoundrels. We will tolerate and forgive your lying to us as long as you don’t make us feel like fools or idiots in the process. If you lie with charm and self-deprecation we will find a way to forgive and forget.
Hillary’s TV presence is devoid of charm. Watching her lie and squirm is akin to watching Richard Nixon in drag. We get everything but the three o’clock shadow and sweaty upper lip. Mark my words–Hillary will not be the nominee nor will she be President.
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